I am having a hard time setting up non-Administrator access to MySQL service START|STOP capabilities. been reading MSDN and python-win32 and ActiveState docs for a couple days, and am stuck. can anyone see a problem here?
with the SetNamedSecurityInfo call, i get a Error 1069: The service did not start due to a logon failure. i know i am getting somehwere, before i changed from SetServiceObjectSecurity to SetNamedSecurityInfo i was getting "access denied" for non-Admins. but i am not quite there yet. many thanks les schaffer ============= import win32api from win32service import * import win32security, pywintypes from win32security import * import win32con hnd = OpenSCManager(None, None, SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS) svcH = OpenService(hnd, "MySQL", SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS) sd = QueryServiceObjectSecurity(svcH, DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION) grp = sd.GetSecurityDescriptorGroup() dacl = sd.GetSecurityDescriptorDacl() bcs_sid = win32security.LookupAccountName('','BCS')[0] start_stop = SERVICE_START | SERVICE_STOP | SERVICE_QUERY_STATUS dacl.AddAccessAllowedAce(dacl.GetAclRevision(),start_stop,bcs_sid) sd.SetSecurityDescriptorDacl(1,dacl,0) sd.SetSecurityDescriptorGroup(bcs_sid,0) result = SetServiceObjectSecurity(svcH, DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION, sd) if not result: print 'SetServiceObjectSecurity returned error: ', win32api.GetLastError() # GetLastError prints Error code 122 result = SetNamedSecurityInfo("MySQL", SE_SERVICE, DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION, None, bcs_sid, dacl, None) if not result: print 'SetNamedSecurityInfo returned error: ', win32api.GetLastError() # GetLastError prints 0 --- ERROR_SUCCESS even though result is None??? _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32